Window-fastener.



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wlNDowFAsTENER. APPLICATION` FILED MAY l5. 19H.,

narran srATEs PATENT Ormea.

CHARLES LOMBARDO, OF WATERFQRD, NEW JERSEY.

` WINnoW-FASTENER.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES LOMBARDO, a citizen of the United States, residing at llVaterford, in the county of Camden, State of New Jersey, have invented certain `new and useful Improvements in WindowFasi and which furthermore is conveniently manipulated to lock the sashes against movement or release the same sothat they may be freely raised and lowered. y

With the above and other Objects of simi# lar nature in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, set forth in and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of a window with the invention associated therewith1 Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the window frame and fastener, part being broken away,

Fig. 3 is a detail section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is adetail section of one of the parts and its related mechanism shown in their retracted or inactive posi-tion,

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4 with the pawl in locked position, and

Fig. 6 is a fragmental view of the ratchet plateY which is secured to a rail of the window sash.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawing, there is illustrated conventionally a window including the usual frame or casing 107 and upper and lower sashes 11 and 12 respectively. Interposed between one of the pulley Stiles 13 of the window casing and the adjacent side rail of each of the sashes is a plate 14, the same being screwed to the sash and having therein a plurality of slots 15 the purpose of which will subsequently appear.

Midway of one side of the window casing there is countersunk and secured a plate 16 provided with a pair of spaced bearing Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1919.

application 1aed May 15,1191?. serial No. 168,771.

. openings 17 land arcuate series of apertures 184concentric with the respective openings. Suitably secured to the above mentioned pulley stile 13 are two Ushaped brackets 19 in the legs of which are rotatably mounted a pair of parallel `shafts 20. These shafts 20 have their outer ends extended through the bearing openings 17 in the plate 16 and have fixed thereon cranks 21 in the handles of which spring pressed latches 22 are provided and adapted for selective engagement innthe related series of apertures 18 to maintain the shafts in various positions of their rotation. At the other or free ends of the shafts there are carried rocker arms 23 provided with slots 24, while secured also to the pulley stile13 are plates A25 each having an aperture 26 through which and through said stile is operatively engaged a spring pressed pawl 27 for cooperation with the slots in the corresponding plate 14.

Inorder to manipulate the pawls so that the sashes may `as `desired either be positively locked against movement, or permitted to move in one or both directions, there are carried by the pawls fixed lateral projections 28 which enter the slots of the adjacent rocker arms 23.

Thus when the cranks 21 are positioned with their catches 22 engaged in certain of the apertures 18 the pawls 27 will be immovably held by the rocker yarms 23 within the related slots in the plates 14 and the sashes will in consequence be securely locked in their respective posi-tions. Should it be desired to permit opening movement of the sashes but to prevent them being closed, the cranks 21 are moved to engage the catches in certain other of the apertures 18 at which time the pawls 27 will be free to ratchet on the plate 14 as will be evident. Positioning of the catches in the remaining apertures serves to throw the pawl`27 entirely out of engagement with the plates 14 so that the sashes may be moved at will in either direction.

What I claim is 1. A window fastener for sashes mounted in the usual frame with the upper portion of the lower sash overlapping the lower portion of the upper sash when said sashes are closed; comprising a casing adapted to be fitted in the frame to overlie said overlapped portions, engaging members within the casing for disposition through the frame at the sash edges to simultaneouslyV or independently engage the latter when closed or v at any position of sliding movement of one with respect to the other to hold said' sashes in adjusted relation, said engaging. means comprising spring pressed bolts, the sashes having spaced sockets along the edges thereof for engagement by said bolts, shafts journaled in the casing andprotruding through the frame, the inner ends of the shafts terminating adjacent the respective bolts, rocker arms on the inner ends of the shafts having inclined slots therethrough, `fixed lateral projections on the bolts movably engaged through the slots whereby rotation of the shafts will. serve to move the bolts into positive engagement with the sockets, out of engagement therewith or to intermediately withdraw said bolts to permit the same to ratchet in the sockets, and means on the shafts and outwardly of the frame to turn the shafts in either direction to oscillate the rocker arms and cause actuation of the bolts as stated orto hold the same in its particle lar actuated position.

2. A window fastener comprising a casing, a pair of angular bearings therein, horizontal parallel' shafts journaled in the bearings with their inner end's protrudin one beyond the other for disposition in di erent vertical planes, plate-like rocker arms fixed to said inner ends at right angles to the axes thereof, spring pressed bolts each having 'an inclosed casing forming a bearing, said bolts being disposed with their axes parallel to the rocker arms and having fixed projections at right angles thereto, said rocker arms having slots engaged by said projec" tions, a bearing plate through which said yshafts extend and having arcuate series of apertures therethrough for each shaft, and cranks fixed to the shafts and having latches at the freeA ends thereof for selective engage- .openings in the edge of the sash, a rocker arm fixed to the inner end of the shaft andl having an elongated slot having movable connection with'the bolt to project or retract the latter upon oscillation of the rocker arm, a plate through which said shaft extends and having an arucate series of apertures, a fixed crank on the shaft and a spring pressed' latch on the crank for engagement with the respective apertures.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES LOMBARDO. Witnesses:

HERMINA KRUEGER, GEO. H. KRUEGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

